“There is always the danger that those forces in Washington, in the Obama administration and in the other NATO capitals that want to intervene militarily in Syria can manufacture some sort of an incident which will then be packaged as a Syrian attack on Turkey,” James Jatras, a former US Senate and foreign policy analyst from Washington DC said in an interview with Press TV on Tuesday.

The analyst rejected Turkey’s claim that the missiles are deployed to protect its borders from the Syrian crisis spillover, saying Syria has been the target of the Turkish government aggression due to the latter’s support for militants fighting against the government of President Bashar al-Assad.